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by Gale Beth Goldberg
Bamboo is the future and will continure to grow in popularity. This book does a great job educating the reader. Every room of the house can be decorated or accented with beautiful, sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material, and accessories. Photographs are beautiful. This book is not only informative, it makes a great gift.
Hardcover: 176 pages
by Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen
Could a straw bale house be made to look a little more refined than than in most of the pictures we've seen? The answer is YES! The gorgeous pictures in this small (but wonderful) book show many different design possibilities, ranging from bale walls simply (but minimally) plastered, to bale walls barely looking like they are made of straw at all. If you're interested in the theory of building a super-insulated strawbale house, but have some questions about how it will look when you're done, you MUST buy this book. See also TheStraw Bale House by the same authors.
Paperback: 128 pages
Believing Cassandra: An Optimist Looks at a Pessimist’s World
by Alan AtKisson
Paul Hawken, author of NATURAL CAPITALISM, says, "Alan AtKisson is the freshest and wisest voice to emerge from the sustainability movement in many years. BELIEVING CASSANDRA manages to be incisive, but also humorous and hopeful, while examining unblinkingly the environmental holocaust enveloping the earth. This book renews our sense of the possible and expands the dimensions of our collective intelligence, transforming our sense of the future from a curse to a blessing."
Paperback: 236 pages
by Annie Berthold-Bond
After developing hypersensitivity to even very low concentrations of chemicals, the author became aware of the extent of the contamination — from floor wax to plastic shower curtains.This book represents the culmination of her search for a more sustainable lifestyle. Sheoffers more than 800 simple and practical alternatives to common household toxins, covering everything from skin care to gardening.
Paperback: 400 pages
by David Gissen (Editor), National Building Museum
A revolutionary new school of skyscraper design has refashioned the idiom with buildings that are sensitive to their environments, benevolent to their occupants, and economically viable to build and maintain. Designed by some of the best-known architects in the world, these towers are as daring aesthetically as they are innovative environmentally. The first book to examine the sustainable skyscraper, its history, the technologies that make it possible, and its role in the future of urban development.
Hardcover: 192 pages
Biodiversity
Edited by Edward O. Wilson
This book calls attention to a most urgent global problem: the rapidly accelerating loss of plant and animal species to increasing human population pressure and the demands of economic development. Biodiversity creates a systematic framework for analyzing the problem and searching for possible solutions.
Paperback: 521 pages
The Biodiversity Crisis: Losing What Counts
by the American Museum of Natural History Books, Michael J. Novacek and Ellen V. Futter
An assemblage of top guns from relevant fields including evolutionary biology, paleontology, environmental chemistry and economics explaining various ecosystems and how damage might be mitigated. 23 essays plus case studies and profiles of scientists and activists set forth our current crisis in three parts: the first explains big issues; the second describes particular species' extinctions; the third shows how people (and governments) might start "Saving Biodiversity."
Paperback: 224 pages
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
by Janine Benyus
The sophisticated, almost pro-growth angle of Benyus shows the great potential profitability of copying some of nature's time-tested, non-polluting room-temperature manufacturing and computing technologies. The colors of Benyus, a splendid Stevensville, Mont., science writer with a grasp of several sciences, contain far more shades of green than of chrome.
Paperback: 320 pages
by David Farrelly
An introduction to the oldest, most remarkable resource on the planet. Part catalog, part history, this book shows us how this versatile grass has been used for thousands of years to make items ranging from things needed for survival like clothing and housing to more exotic and luxurious objects like phonograph needles and children's toys. Practical and wistful accounts about the plant's lore, its biology and life cycle, including tips on harvesting and planting.
Paperback: 360 pages
Publisher: Sierra Club Books
ISBN: 087156825X
by Malcolm Holzman, Michael Kaplan (Photographer)
Architect Bruce Goff (1904-1982) is recognized as one of the 20th century's great creative geniuses. The spatial and textural qualities of his work can now be better understood and enjoyed. First in a series documenting great works of architecture using stereoscopic (3-D) photography, this book is published under the direction of Michael Kaplan, Architecture Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he has taught architectural design and theory and is a veteran stereo photographer.
Product Bundle of 21 full-color 3-D photographs on three View-Master reels
Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium
by Thomas T. K. Zung (Editor), Buckminster Fuller (Editor)
R. Buckminster Fuller revolutionized Western thinking and design, even though only a tiny fraction of his ideas were ever developed. Outrageously, most of his works are out of print here at the turn of the century, so his collaborator and architectural partner, Thomas T.K. Zung, organized the publication of this book. Collected are 20 selections from Fuller's books, each introduced by notable thinkers and writers.
Hardcover: 416 pages
by Lloyd Steven Sieden, Norman Cousins
Inventor of the geodesic dome and the phrase "spaceship earth," Fuller reportedly once had an out-of-body experience in which a voice told him: "You do not belong to you. You belong to the Universe." Shook the world with his technological innovations and vision of global unity,here is brought down to earth in this absorbing biographical study. Though many of Fuller's major projects were commercial failures, Sieden succeeds in demonstrating how his search for Nature's underlying rules of harmony and efficiency is relevant to fields ranging from aviation and manufacturing technology to environmentalism, housing, parapsychology and extraterrestrial anthropology. Photos.
Paperback: 511 pages
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